Please help, Ognian has helped everyone in need when he could! Now he needs help! We need to raise the first 60 000 BGN by the end of October. And the whole treatment amounts to 120 000 lv. This is a huge and unaffordable amount for us. PLEASE HELP US!

My husband Ognian Ivanov is a happy father and grandfather, a retired Bulgarian officer and policeman. An honest and decent Bulgarian. He has served in the Construction Troops, in the SDVR and in the Fifth Regional Police of Sofia. He dedicated his whole life to the protection of citizens and society. His colleagues and friends know him as a loyal and extremely honest man. A few years ago he defended his doctorate in the field of national security.

In July 2024, after suffering a bowel obstruction accident, he was diagnosed with a rare and very dangerous neuroendocrine tumor in his stomach. The disease is on the list of rare diseases - 1 in 100,000 people. The disease has also been proven by immunohistochemical testing twice. Other tests have been done, which unfortunately confirm the diagnosis.Ognyan has multiple comorbidities: six heart attacks, a stroke and type-2 diabetes.

Due to his medical condition it is not possible to surgically remove the main tumor and associated smaller growths in his stomach. Traditional chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc. cannot be administered to him. The only possible treatment is with Sandostatin LAR injections, which he has started receiving at Serdika Hospital with a course of one every four weeks and an urgently needed intervention with radioisotope therapy. The therapy includes Lucretium 177, which is the standard treatment for this type of tumors. Radioisotope therapy is performed in four treatments over 4 or 8 weeks. After the first two, a DOTATE analysis and five-scanner DOTATE is performed and if necessary two more treatments are performed.

We now have a five-scanner DOTOTATE on 1 October, from which the radioisotope therapy will be decided.

After discussions with the Head of Nuclear Medicine at Tokuda Hospital, we have been informed that there is a practice in Bulgaria with radioisotope therapy, but only for prostate tumours. For the case of a neuroendocrine tumour in the stomach, there is not. Eventually, there is talk that it could be done experimentally on Ognian, but if the country allows Lucrecia 177 to be imported, ready for administration. In Bulgaria, the procedure is repeated 8 times and at a cost of about 14,000 leva minimum each.

After our research in Germany, this procedure would cost 4 treatments at about 30,000 leva each or a total of about 120,000 leva.

Dear friends and people with good hearts, Please help! I believe that if everyone helps us with even a very small amount we will raise the necessary funds and give Ognyan a chance for his treatment! For us the amount is unaffordable and we cannot imagine that Auggie will not be able to live the rest of his life among his loved ones, children, grandchildren and friends!